Poyln
Subtitle: Jewish Life in the Old Country
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: November 6, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780805050974
Subjects: Pictorial works; Judaism - History; History Of Jews; Religion; History - General History; History: World; Poland; Photoessays & Documentaries; Eastern Europe - Poland; Jewish - General; Jewish studies; Photographic reportage; Photography / Photo Essays; Second World War, 1939-1945; Jews
First sentence: The old castle and the synagogue (right), connected by an underground passage
Description: "In 1921, photographer Alter Kacyzne was commissioned by the New York Yiddish daily, the Forverts, to document images of Jewish life in the "old country." Kacyzne's assignment would become a ten-year journey across Poland - or "Poyln," as more than three million Yiddish-speaking Jews called their home - from the crowded quarters of Warsaw and Lublin to the remote towns of Husiatyn and Ostrog.

His candid and intimate views of teeming village square and rustic workshops, synagogues, and spinning wheels give us a priveleged view of a world that is no more."--BOOK JACKET.